THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
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Photograph by Capt. Albert W. Stevens
LOOKING DOWN SIXTEENTH STREET FROM ABOVE MERIDIAN HILL PARK
"Embassy Row," this section of Sixteenth Street is often called. The Mexican and Spanish
Embassies stand below the second church on the left. Across the street are the Italian, Polish,
Cuban, and French Embassies and the Lithuanian and Persian Legations. Farther downtown, on
the left side of the street, rises the pyramidal roof of the magnificent Scottish Rite Masonic
Temple. Sixteenth Street extends for six and a half miles from Lafayette Square, in front of the
White House, to the District-Maryland line.
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